On 2018-05-29 18:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On May 29, 2018, at 08:58, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> On 2018-05-29 06:24, Shuvayan wrote: >> >>>> On 29-May-2018, at 9:47 AM, Shuvayan wrote: >>>> >>>> Output:DEBUG: Copying >>>> /Users/shuvayan/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to >>>> /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences >>>> Version number in metadata table is newer than expected. >>>> while executing >>>> "registry::open $db_path" >>>> (procedure "mportinit" line 642) >>>> invoked from within >>>> "mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations" >>>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, Version >>>> number in metadata table is newer than expected. >>>> >>> >> >> I am not sure how you got into this state, but you should be able to >> recover by installing MacPorts 2.5.0 from the .pkg installer. > > Isn't the metadata table part of the registry? Why would reinstalling > MacPorts affect the registry?
Apparently the registry was already updated, but the MacPorts installation is too old to use it. I have no idea how that happened (besides manually installing 2.4.x after selfupdate), but installing MacPorts 2.5.0 should make the MacPorts installation match the registry format version. Rainer
